Category: Parenting
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Five Fun and Fast Ways to Get Kids to Eat Their Veggies, No Bribing Necessary
Children can be picky eaters, especially when it comes to healthy foods like vegetables. Explanations on the benefits of vegetables are lost on children, leaving creativity and consistency as a better approach. With some persistence, the following five tips will get children to eat and enjoy their vegetables. Set a Fun Example Kids learn best…
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How to Create a Mindful Student
My daughter started taking education courses during her freshman year of high school. Her teacher was impressed with my daughter’s work in the childhood education class and encouraged my daughter to start the teacher intern program her junior year. At the beginning of school, my daughter started her teacher intern program. This program allows her…
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Our Pop-Secret Pillow Fort – A Perfect Rainy Day Activity #PopSecretForts
Disclosure: Thank you to Pop Secret for sponsoring today’s post and inspiring me to try building a pillow fort! All opinions are 100% my own. Join me in remembering one of my favorite childhood memories as I share it with my children today. Does your child enjoy building forts? If not, check out our pop…
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Top 5 Tablets Under $150 for Kids
My youngest son has always enjoyed playing games on my phone since he was 2 years old. However, I was always worried that he would accidentally dial 911. So far I have been lucky, he hasn’t done that but he will still grab my phone when I am not looking and pick it up. I…
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Sticking With Your Kids Physicals and Dental Care
One of the most important things any new parents can do is make sure that their child is healthy. This means not only taking care of them when they are sick, but also going for regular checkups to make sure that they are developing properly. The CDC has stated that it is not only important…
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Smaller Pets Can Entertain Your Children and Help Teach Them Responsibility
It’s never too early to start teaching your child about responsibility. As they get older, we want them to value cleaning up after themselves, helping out around the house, and even using their manners. To this end, it is important to instill values into their core at a young age. One of the best ways…
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It’s Never Too Soon for Baby Pictures
How early is too early? You could ask that about a lot of things. Some people get more and more upset every year because Christmas paraphernalia keeps coming out earlier and earlier. We have long given up on waiting until the day after Thanksgiving to start the winter festivities. Although, at the time of this writing, it is…
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5 Make-Up Essentials for Teenagers
I have never been much of a girly girl when it comes to wearing make up. I will wear make-up occasionally but I have always believed in natural beauty. Plus, I don’t like spending hours upon hours in front of the mirror primping. My daughter on the other hand started wearing make-up around the age…
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6 Reasons to Buy Baby Products That Have the JPMA Logo #BSZParent #ad #IC
“I participated in a campaign on behalf of Influence Central for the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association. I received a promotional item as a thank you for participating.” I was excited when I found out that I was pregnant with my daughter. She was born in December and one day I was driving after it got…
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Prenatal Massages: A Little TLC Can Go a Long Way
When you are pregnant, your body goes through a lot of changes. As your little one grows and develops, your body takes on a lot of extra weight (and a few aches and pains) along the way. Though there are plenty of tricks and apparatuses that you can use to relieve some of the pain,…